Olu Akanmu
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Experience
Executive in Residence
Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University
Oct 2023 – PresentChief Executive Officer/ Board Advisor
Phillips and Samuel Ltd (Advisory Services)
Aug 2023 – PresentNon Executive Director
EFInA
Jan 2024 – Jun 2024President and Co-CEO, OPay-Nigeria
OPay
Nov 2021 – Jul 2023Executive Director- Retail Banking
First City Monument Bank Limited
Apr 2017 – Oct 2021Senior Vice President/ Divisional Head of Retail Banking
Jul 2013 – Apr 2017
Chief Marketing Officer
Airtel Nigeria
Jun 2012 – May 2013Managing Director- Retail and Consumer Banking
BankPHB, Nigeria
Jan 2007 – Apr 2012General Manager-Consumer Marketing
MTN Nigeria
Jul 2001 – Jan 2007Client Service Director
Insight Communications- Grey ( Marketing and Advertising)
Jun 2000 – Jun 2001Project Consultant
Adaptive Eyecare, Oxford Centre for Innovation, Oxford, Unted Kingdom
May 1999 – Jun 2000Chief Operating Officer (Nigeria)/ Marketing Manager- South Africa
Population Services International
Feb 1994 – Feb 1999Marketing Manager/ Regional Manager ( Eastern and Northern Nigeria)
Glaxo Nigeria Limited
Jun 1988 – Jan 1994
Education
Edinburgh Business School
Heriot-Watt University, Post Graduate Certificate in Business Research
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015University of Ife
Nigeria, Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours)
Jan 1981 – Jan 1985Lagos State University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.a.)
Jan 1996 – Jan 1997University of the Witwatersrand
Management Advancement Program (Distinction), January 1998

